Word: tepidity
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...first glance" the Treasury plan appeared to fulfill his goals. But he stated that "all of us will need time to study the entire document. We are willing to listen to the comments and suggestions of all Americans and especially those from the Congress." Aides insisted that this tepid response was part of a calculated strategy to sniff out public sentiment before deciding how, and how rapidly, to proceed. In other words, the plan is, precisely, a trial balloon. And nothing more...
...main pleasures of Superman is watching him bash buildings, save trains, and most important, commit assault on people in amusing ways. The cartoon violence in Supergirl is so tepid that we can only wonder if Szware was worried about in timidating males insecure about muscle bound women. The persons Supergirl bashes are two painfully stereotypical redneck truckers with ungentlemanly designs on Supergirl's too, too solid flesh. She can't even bring herself to hit the amazingly unthreatening invisible monster that tears up the countryside, choosing for some unknown reason a more ladylike lightning bolt. And why is it that...
LOCATIONS COMPLEMENT paternal preferences. Boswell was a lawyer by trade, and although Brady describes several fascinating cases that found the kneejerking Boswell scurrying to the defence, mostly he hated the tepid legal routine. Further, he lacked the instincts of a lawyer. Although Boswell did settle down some after marrying his beloved wife Margaret, Edinburgh in the shadow of his father and the law was never a pleasant home for him. "Only in London were his talents and personality appreciated at their full value. Only in London did mere existence blossom into life." In London was Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith along with...
...hope that the President will bear this distinction in mind as he contemplates his second term agenda. Clearly a landslide victory is a sturdy political walking stick that can be called into service whenever the road gets rough in the next four years. Yet given the electorate's tepid reception of Reagan clones mouthing the President's line--Bay State businessman Rax Shamie comes quickly to mind--it would be dishonest to interpret the Reagan win as a green flag for the radical right...
Still, the response he has been getting is tepid enough to indicate that there is some regrettable truth to the remarks made by Peter Teeley, press secretary to Vice President George Bush, after his man debated Mondale Running Mate Geraldine Ferraro. Said Teeley: "You can say anything you want during a debate, and 80 million people hear it." If the press then points out an error, Teeley continued, "so what? Maybe 200 people read it, or 2,000 or 20,000." (Teeley hastened to add that Bush has not "purposely used misleading or incorrect figures...